# The conformed only know conforming Created On: 06-07-2023 05:07 pm Up:: [[Mindfulness (MOC)]] Type: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: Related:: --- Only the liberated see conforming effects for their true tumultuous impact… Take things like money and wealth. Money is a manufactured concept by man. Money, especially since the abandonment of the gold standard, has no inherent material value in our world - *only the value we give it*. It is through the construction of that human construct that we become conformed by it its inner workings and demands. Think about wealth, those demands consume us. In a pseudo Kantian way, through the perpetuation of [[Capitalism]], wealth is an insurmountable - winning means having all of it, which is not possible. No one ever wins a manmade construct, well… These are always conforming behavior to their own conceptual trenches. Those who’re [[Ego Death|ego dead]] fair much better than most. However, for the majority, there should be no surprise that the conformed only know how to conform… Yet, the transformed struggle to transform the conformed… Related: * [[If you want to improve, be ignorant]] * [[Conforming vs Transforming]]